Troubles with sounds

[Nadja]

Hi.

I am trying to add music to the different pages of our website
(www.snorkelpark.com). For some reason, it doesn't work with all of them.

With the following http://www.snorkelpark.com/under_construction_9.html the
sound (mp3 file) works but it takes very long for it to download on the
website. How can I change that and make it faster?

On the home page, I was using the file music/web_home.m4a (MPEG-4) but it
doesn't play at all.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

You can speed up the playback on a 3.4 MB mp3 file w/o a streaming media server

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| Hi.
|
| I am trying to add music to the different pages of our website
| (www.snorkelpark.com). For some reason, it doesn't work with all of them.
|
| With the following http://www.snorkelpark.com/under_construction_9.html the
| sound (mp3 file) works but it takes very long for it to download on the
| website. How can I change that and make it faster?
|
| On the home page, I was using the file music/web_home.m4a (MPEG-4) but it
| doesn't play at all.
|
| What am I doing wrong?

 

[Mike Mueller]

Before I answer your question, I will enlighten you on a few things....
1. Many people do not like music coming from webpages. Usually they are at
work or listening to their own, and forcing them to listen to something that
they did not choose is considered rude.
2. Only Internet Explorer will play your background music. BGSound has never
been part of web developement standards, and most likely never will be

As to your problem, the size of the MP3 file is the issue. HTTP is a
download and then view protocal, so the entire clip needs to download first
before IE will start playing it. When the BGSound feature was created, it
was intended for the smaller Midi format.

 

[Nadja]

Thanks! That was very helpful and we will reconsider adding sounds to the
pages.